Terry's Christmas Workshop

Holidays are always hectic around here and this year wasn't any different. With all of our children and grandchildren living within 30 minutes of us all of our celebrations include a lot of people and confusion. Terry added an extra edge on his time by deciding to make all of the grandchildren gifts. He went to his workshop and hand crafted knives & sheaths for most of the boys. (All of our grandchildren are boys.) Erik, Coleman's youngest boy had a birthday in December so Terry had already made him a wooden knife, so Erik's gift was a tomahawk. On Christmas morning, having seen his cousins open up their wooden knives, Erik seemed confused with his gift. Upon looking at the tomahawk the first thing he said was, "Is this a weapon?" When we replied yes he yelled,"Cool!" Terry made real knives for the oldest two grandsons and one for Afton. The knives came in handy as we were opening our gifts. Terry had one sealed with packing tape. Terry always carries his own pocket knife but when he reached for it on Christmas morning he realized it was not in his pocket. He muttered that he needed a knife to open his gift and our 4 year old grandson Aidan quickly produced his wooden knife out of it's sheath for Terry to use. We all gave looks to each other as if to say that is not going to work. However, not wanting to disappoint Aidan, Terry opened the gift. The proud look on Aidan's face was priceless.

The top picture is the dagger Terry made for Afton. The center picture is Ethan and Erik admiring Erik's tomahawk. The third picture is Nick's knife. The handle is made out of walrus oosik. If you want to know what that is, look it up. We loved the look on Nick's face when he realized what he was holding.